Kingsman: The Secret Service
A few days ago I wrote: The Oscars? Oh, I'd hoped Interstellar might win a special Academy Award for Most Intriguing Villain for Matt Damon's portrayal of insane megalomaniac scientist "Dr Mann". Alas not. But the other night I went to see the Colin Firth spy caper Kingsman, and once again the world-domination super-villain was a climate-change madman, played by a lithping Samuel L Jackson, who manages to recruit an Obama lookalike president to his deranged scheme. We had a bit of mail about ... |
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SteynPostsA Se'nnight of Steyn, February 23-March 1
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark SteynPostsThe Warmish Inquisition
The news this last week reminded me of a piece of mine from May, called "Michael E Mann: Liar, Cheat, Falsifier and Fraud" (I toned down the headline upon the advice of counsel). Therein I wrote: It's always fun in a legal battle to have something bigger at stake than a mere victory. In Canada, we put the "human rights" system itself on trial, to the point where the disgusting and indefensible "hate speech" law Section 13 was eventually repealed by Parliament. It seems to me that in this ... SteynPostsPlanet of the Llamas
On Thursday, I kept my weekly date on The Hugh Hewitt Show, just in time for the big news of the day: HUGH HEWITT: Now we've got a lot to cover. We've got to cover llamas, the Oscars and the Islamic State, not to mention Chris Christie, so I've got to go fast. Did you by chance watch the llama drama on Fox today? MARK STEYN: (laughing) Yeah, the llamas on the llam. You can joke, Hugh, but I think the llamapocalypse is upon us. I looked out in the yard, out of the window at the yard about 20 ... Steyn on Britain and EuropeFor Valour
The Victoria Cross is the Commonwealth's highest decoration for valour on the battlefield. Yesterday it was awarded to the first living Briton for action in the Afghan war (if memory serves, three living Aussies have been so honoured). Lance-Corporal Joshua Leakey was with the 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment on a joint UK/US operation in Helmand when it all went pear-shaped, and he found himself having to rescue a fallen American Marine captain while fending off 20 Taliban single-handed: ... SteynPostsConflation Abounds
I bailed on the Academy Awards halfway through that terrible, overwrought opening song, "Moving Pictures". "That's a Tony number, not an Oscar number," I scoffed, and went off to shampoo the cat while singing "Hooray For Hollywood". But, when you go on TV and radio, people tend to ask you about these things, so on the off-chance it comes up with Hugh Hewitt on Thursday afternoon I thought I ought to bring myself up to speed on all the big controversies. Which is how I came to be reading this ... Ten Years AgoSod's Law
It's Oscar Night in America! Mann vs SteynFootball and HockeyThe Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
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Defend Free Speech!Nobel Pants Prize
Fraudulent Nobel Laureate Michael E Mann is fully on board with the President's veto of the Keystone pipeline:
As the Big Climate enforcers see it, when it comes to laying pipe all over the planet, leave that to Rajendra Pachauri... Defend Free Speech!Fake Nobel Laureate Facing Sex Arrest for Wandering Hockey Stick
IPCC honcho and warmographic novelist Rajendra Pachauri finally comes a cropper Steyn's Song of the WeekThe Continental
It's the wee small hours after Oscar Night, and so our Sinatra Centenary song is obliged to take a nod at least in the direction of the Academy Awards. Frank made a whole album of Oscar winners, with the unwieldy title of Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners... SteynPostsClimate Change: The Facts
As I mentioned the other day in relation to Michael E Mann's latest "hockey stick", I'm honored to be alongside some of the most eminent scientists and some of the most rollicking commentators in a new book called Climate Change: The Facts...It's available right now from Amazon outlets worldwide... |
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Gerald Marks lived 96 years and change, and toward the end of that long life I had the pleasure of hearing him explain to me how all hit songs are happy accidents. He attributed the success of his tune "All Of Me" to two such accidents, one of which was less of an accident than a personal tragedy...
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